Systems of Organization: The control of task and sentient boundaries

by E. J. Miller (Editor), A. K. Rice (Editor)

Overview

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136437120
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

E. J. Miller, A. K. Rice

Table of Contents

I: A Conceptual Framework; 1: Systems of Activity and their Boundaries; 2: Individuals, Groups, and their Boundaries; 3: Task Priorities and Constraints; 4: Organizational Model-Building; II: Transactions across Enterprise Boundaries; 5: The Selling Task and the Representative; 6: Organization of the Sales Force; 7: The Dry-Cleaning Receiving Office and the Customer; 8: Effects of Technical Change in Dry Cleaning; III: Disentanglement of Coincident Task Boundaries; 9: The Family Business in Contemporary Society; 10: Constraints on Growth and Change in the Family Business; IV: Temporary and Transitional Task Systems; 11: Organizational Boundaries in the Building of a New Works; 12: The Building of a New Steel Works; 13: Organization for Research; 14: The Control of Research Institutions; 15: Airline Operations: Task and Constraints; 16: Boundary Controls in an Airline; 17: Task and Sentient Groups in the Flying System; 18: The Flying System/Ground System Boundary; V: The Elimination of Organizational Boundaries within Enterprises; 19: The Background to the Introduction of Automation; 20: The Organizational Implications of Computer Systems; VI: Task and Sentient Systems and their Boundary Controls; 21: Task and Sentient Groups; 22: Boundary Controls